Peter Kalmus: ‘As a species, we’re on autopilot, not making the right decisions’

In the United Nations’ IPCC most recent climate change mitigation report, the word “lifestyle” appears 193 times. The authors write, “The acceptability of collective social change over a longer term towards less resource intensive lifestyles, however, depends on the social mandate for change. This mandate can be built through public participation,

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If industry prevails and we stick with a business-as-usual scenario — and pretty much all data indicates this is what we are doing — we’ll blow through our carbon budget in less than seven years.9 Global temperature rise will continue on its trajectory of 3°C10 increase or worse by the end of the century, and, in environmentalist Bill McKibben’s wo

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This answer is no longer broadly resonant, or even acceptable as a go-forward baseline in the circles that run Western civilization (ref The Davos Agenda). It’s clear that pursuit of maximal human dominance has led to widespread, intractable and potentially irreversibly negative impact on “the planet”, by which we generally mean those planetary eco... See more

Sous la menace des mesures d’atténuation des effets du changement climatique, les intérêts en jeu sont d’ordres différents pour le capital fossile primitif. Il se trouve face à une crise existentielle dans la mesure où la prévention d’interférences anthropogéniques dangereuses avec le climat requiert en définitive sa disparition. Cependant, pour le

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